Mising (Miri) Tribe History: Origin, Adi Connection, Ahom Era, Culture & Today

his documentary uses published research (Bhandari 1984, Lakshmi Devi 1968, Sharma 2012), government and news sources, and Wikipedia. Early Mising history was passed down orally, so migration dates and the origin of the name "Miri" are still debated. Where evidence is uncertain, we say so. Corrections with sources are welcome in the comments 00:00 – Who Are the Mising People? 00:48 – Mising or Miri: Why Two Names? 02:05 – Tani Roots & Origin 03:25 – From the Hills to Brahmaputra Valley 04:42 – Mising & Adi Connection 05:55 – Mising Language & Similarities 07:05 – Mising During the Ahom Era 08:20 – Posa System & Miri Barua 09:32 – British Period & Changing Identity 10:35 – Traditional Life, Food & Apong 11:35 – Dress, Festivals & Customs 12:30 – Mising Language in Danger 13:18 – Mising Identity Today 14:00 – End Source - Bhandari, J. S. (1984). "Ethnohistory, Ethnic Identity and Contemporary Mishing Society." Indian Anthropologist 14(2): 79–103. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41919494 Devi, Lakshmi (1968). Ahom-Tribal Relations: A Political Study. Assam Book Depot, Gauhati. Sharma, Chandan Kumar (2012). "Mapping the Trajectory of Contemporary Ethnic Identity Movement: The Case of the Misings of Assam." https://www.academia.edu/40787605/ Govt. of India Tribal Repository — "The Mising Tribe of Assam" (AIRTSC). https://repository.tribal.gov.in/bits... Bordoloi, B. N. (1992). Folk Literature of the Misings. AIRTSC. https://archive.org/details/in.gov.tr... Wikipedia — Mising people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mising_... Wikipedia — Mising language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mising_... Wikipedia — A:bang (Mibu / Miri priestly songs): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A:bang Wikipedia — Mising Agom Kébang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mising_... Wikipedia — Mising Autonomous Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mising_... Takam Mising Porin Kebang (official site): https://tmpk.org/ Omniglot — Mising language and alphabet: https://www.omniglot.com/writing/misi... The Assam Tribune — "Adi, Mising communities for revival of lost glory": https://assamtribune.com/adi-mising-c... Research paper on Mising migration routes and the term "Miri" (Golaghat Commerce College): https://golaghatcommercecollege.org/w... IJSSR — "The Mising People to Assamese Society and Culture" (Hemkosh definition): https://www.ijssr.com/wp-content/uplo... Wikipedia — Lhoba people (Tani oral homeland; "southerners"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhoba_p... Wikipedia — Tani languages (Mark Post 2015; Blench 2014): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tani_la... Wikipedia — Stilt house (chang ghar / kare okum): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_h... UNDRR / PreventionWeb — "India's Mising community seeks to expand its indigenous adaptation practices": https://www.preventionweb.net/news/in... Dialogue Earth — "Adapting to Brahmaputra floods" (non-Mising families building the Mising way): https://dialogue.earth/en/livelihoods... Nomomente — Mising stilt house interior (Meram, Perab, Rabbong, Tunggeng): https://nomomente.org/post/mising-tri... Caritas India — "Mising" as mi (man) + asi (water): https://caritasindia.org/GlobalProgra... Wikipedia — Kulajan (1966 Mising Bane Kebang conference): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulajan Wikipedia — Shakuntala Gamlin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakunt... The Assam Tribune / PTI — "SD Gamlin new CS of Arunachal": https://assamtribune.com/sd-gamlin-ne... Wikipedia — Ranoj Pegu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranoj_Pegu Wikipedia — Jadav Payeng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_P... EastMojo — Jadav Payeng honoured (Molai Forest): https://eastmojo.com/news/2020/03/12/... #misingtribe #MisingTribe #MisingPeople #Miri #MiriTribe #Assam #AssamHistory #NortheastIndia #NortheastHistory #Tani #TaniPeople #Adi #AdiTribe #Brahmaputra #AhomHistory #IndigenousPeople #TribalHistory #MisingCulture #MisingLanguage #AssamTribes